I just saw the British Prime Minister do something, so appallingly tasteless I could not believe it was happening. BBC News just showed a dawn raid by immigration officers on a well-kept home. So far, so tasteless.
Astonishingly, once the evil foreigners had been herded up and taken off to detention camps, where they risk being beaten up or raped, Teresa May and David Cameron arrived, and posed in the victims’ kitchen for trophy pictures.
I thought that what Blair has done since leaving Downing Street had debased the office of Prime Minister to an astonishing degree. But, posing for a stunt in the neat and clean kitchen of some poor immigrant, David Cameron had plumbed levels of tastelessness that again make me realise that the UK has become a country whose values I no longer recognise. The disgusting complicity of the BBC in filming this stunt is equally astonishing.
Are there really so few people left who have the slightest idea of what constitutes decent human behaviour?
Not forgetting Donny Darko. Missed you all but wish we were talking about anything other than an unequal war in the ME. Has anyone mentioned that Cameron and Hague’s Libyan legacy is on fire?
Hi Mary, hope you are well
Donny: Our armed forces have become aggressive in nature
Don’t want to be a smartass, but they’re supposed to be. The problem is what they’re told to do (they have no option but to do it) – not the way that they do it. There are plenty of thinking Service
menpersons who are less than happy about the politicians’ ideas for their employment, and not just because their lives are on the line.Mary, 1:58 pm:
Mary, please post some links about this for me.
In case it helps at all, there is a little good news from Israel; here’s the link I posted earlier:
http://tabithatroughton.wordpress.com/2014/07/23/standing-with-the-israelis/
“So we are to understand that you are in favor of eliminating both the English and the Scotch as distinct racial and cultural entities,”
After I posted that I regretted using Scots as an example. It was a general comment on Nationalism and the traps it sets for all of us.
Hope you are fit as a fiddle Mary.
nevermind, it will happen anyway
29 Jul, 2014 – 10:59 pm
Maybe because they would give the position of the tunnels away, too cheaply?
Axiomatic?
Clark you are a stand up guy, who is always debating in good faith, as well as trying to reason with those whose unreason and unlogic smack of tribalism, supremacy and mendacity.
However the following clarifies that some of those debating here, are not debating in good faith, but are playing to the gallery:
As always in the way of fishwives logic projections forming the basis of their assumptions, that elegantly follows with the by the numbers denunciations, as their formula for retorts and responses.
Clearly there is no debate, or any attempt to exchange views, but a systematic and uniform effort to reiterate the “alternative” that is the main stay policies of the current genocide and land theft. The roll call of the “honour”; (you, Resident Dissident, Kempe and so on) are not here to debate, but to counter any alternative view and swamp it with the torrents of nonsense peddled in the corporate media and espoused by the bought and paid for political actors.
Clark how can the distortion of justice that are unfolding in Palestine can occur without the comprehensive blanket of lies and fraudulent narrative?
The “finer points of immigration etc”, are all related to the rise in population of the Muslims who are aware of the actualities and represent a danger to the narrative. Thus the tools to curtail any such outcome are also part of the curriculum of study for these cretins using this blog and elsewhere to maintain the comprehensive blanket of lies.
These appointed (make no mistake, they are getting paid in kind or otherwise) fraudsters, liars and cheats take pride in lying and fooling their audience; “the man in the street”, in a perverse fashion they misconstrue such behaviour as the traits of “intellect and intelligence”.
You are debating in good faith, whilst these characters are using this blog to peddle the same dross that the corporate media is flooding all channels of communications with. The fear of the case for the “alternative” that is the true reality taking roots! All the while using zersetzung methods (why spoil a good recipe) to deter the others not as easily fooled, by bullying them into silence.
Clark
You are really a very silly bugger, aren’t you.
You interpret my comment as meaning I had hoped that Mary would not emerge from hospital. As I don’t believe you’re the malicious type, to so interpret my comment can only mean that you are stupider than I’d thought.
It’s good that she’s out of hospital (I would say the same about my next door neighbour, by the way) but I contest the assertion that it’s good she’s started commenting again.
Clear enough, Dummkopf?
And now go and wring your hands about something else.
Passerby (and Clark)
“However I join in looking forward to the exposure of identity too, a very well deserved case for publicity and exposure.”
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And you (Passerby)are another stupid one, aren’t you.
Stupid people don’t have usually have good memories, so I’ll remind you that I once, in response to provocation, challenged ALL the Eminences and Useful idiots to reveal their identities and addresses on here, whereupon I would so the same.
Result – only one taker (Jives), silence from the rest.
So I now repeat the challenge and invite you to show the rest the good example.
Over to you.
Clark @ 2:43
No good deed goes unpunished as you get bitten trying to offer food to a dog.
Mr Donny Darko
“Britain is run pretty much by corporations ( City + Lobby )Our Police have become tools of the Government.Our armed forces have become aggressive in nature.Censorship in the media is rife.Protest is still permitted but 100% controlled by the Police.Privacy has all but disappeared. I would call that fascist.”
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Your view that the UK is fascist does not surprise me, because other comments from you have shown me that you must be a rather disturbed person.
I am therefore interested in Craig’s view and not yours, for the oppposite reason – namely that Craig is still a normal person.
California Ben
Well, there is the saying, isn’t there : never do anyone a favour if you don’t want him to hate you for it.
Heeeeerrrres Habbabkluk! Complete with an armful of sayings from long-dead grannies and a trailer-load of Ad Hominem.
Passerby
Further proof of your stupidity.
“The roll call of the “honour”; (you, Resident Dissident, Kempe and so on) are not here to debate, but to counter any alternative view”
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On the contrary : we are here (well, I speak for myself) as alternative voices to counter the pensée unique reigning on this blog.
That is why you and the other Eminences (about 20 of you) and Useful Fools get so upset. You used to have things all your own way – all smiling at each other and congratulating each other on your brilliant “insights” and cut-and-pastes – and then up pop a couple of people who don’t buy your ravings and dare to say so.
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“….to deter the others not as easily fooled, by bullying them into silence.”
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Yeah, sure. 2O Eminences and a cohort of Useful Idiots against myself, Anon, Kempe and Resident Dissident and it’s WE who are “bullying” YOU?
Puleeeeze!
Eminences – please find a better spokesman, this one’s hopeless!
Habbabkuk, you are mendacious. That was your first comment since Mary returned from treatment. You must have been aware that from her point of view, you were effectively wishing death upon her.
You owe Mary an apology, but I doubt your soul includes such decency.
Anh Habbabkuk, I posted a reasonable question to you early in this thread. Please answer.
It’s called Supply and Demand, The inventories must be replenished, and the Military/Industrial Complex must keep their assembly lines running. Use it or lose it.
http://www.therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=12175
“We’ve seen in the last couple of years a pattern. Every two years or so, the Israeli military attacks Gaza, attacks the Gaza Strip, and causes a lot of destruction. But right after each one of those attacks, there is a trade show in which Israeli weapon companies show their wares, show their technologies, and boast that these are the very technologies that have been used just now against Palestinians in Gaza. We saw that after the attack of 2008-2009, known as Cast Lead, where the main theme was those robots that go into houses to look around corners. Then we saw that again in the attack of 2012, which was called Pillar of Cloud, in which the main theme was the Iron Dome system that can intercept the Palestinian rockets. And now, in the current attack, we have again the Iron Dome system that is supposed to intercept rockets.
And all of these Israeli companies, which are becoming an increasingly important and very significant part of the Israeli export system and the Israeli economy, depend on those wars. They depend on periodic fighting where they can showcase their equipment, their technology. And the first thing that they say when they try to market whatever it is that they develop: we’ve already used that on actual human beings. And by making that claim, they’re able to compete with weapon manufacturers from other countries.
DESVARIEUX: But, Shir, which companies are we talking about here? And are any of them connected to the United States?
HEVER: One of the major companies that we’re talking about is Israeli Aerospace Industries. This company, there was a little article about it in the newspaper just two days ago that right now, in the middle of this attack, they’ve issued a call–they’ve issued bonds and tried to raise finance in order to expand the company and increase their production. And they were able to raise $132 million in just one week, which comes up as $132,000 per Palestinian killed in this attack. By now, there are more Palestinians who have been killed, but by now the company’s also sold additional bonds. And this company sees a direct relation between the violence against Gaza and the ability of this company to find new markets for its products.
Another very prominent company is called Elbit Systems. This is a very famous Israeli company which specializes in drones. And, of course, they’re also very active in this war.
KOWN and Ben. Thanks a lot. It is kind of you.
Habbabkuk. Get used to it. You’ll have me for some time longer.
Clark Libya.
Libya: It Was All Supposed To Be Very Different
David Cameron arrived to a hero’s welcome in 2011 – but now violence threatens to destabilise further an already volatile region.
news.sky.com 8:47pm, 28 July 2014
Oil Sending Libya Down Somalia’s Route To Ruin
The repercussions of losing Libya are monumental, especially for Europe, writes ex-advisor to Libya’s government Richard Bailey.
news.sky.com 6:58pm, 28 July 2014
Rival Militia Groups Spark Libyan Oil Depot Fire
Hundreds of residents evacuate their homes after armed groups battling for control of Tripoli airport ignite an oil-storage tank.
news.sky.com 6:29pm, 28 July 2014
British Embassy Convoy Attacked In Libya
The Foreign Office urges all Britons to leave as further attacks on foreigners are likely amid a “greater intensity of fighting”.
news.sky.com 4:52am, 28 July 2014
http://news.sky.com/search?term=libya&fromdate=anytime&order=date
Mary, thanks.
I have to go out now. Habbabkuk, grow a heart.
Jolly good. Rather an about turn since May!!!
Every little helps!
July 29, 2014
Britain’s largest supermarket chain Tesco boycotts products from occupied West Bank
http://www.redressonline.com/2014/07/britains-largest-supermarket-chain-tesco-boycotts-products-from-occupied-west-bank/
Tuesday, 13 May 2014, 13:32
Subject: TES5414946NI: Re your recent enquiry
Dear Mrs ……
As a responsible retailer, we take very seriously our duty to ensure that all our products are safe and legal. Our approach is therefore to stick carefully to UK and EU guidelines. These require that product from this area be labelled clearly with its regional indication.
We therefore follow Defra guidelines which recommend that labels for products from the West Bank state either “Produce of the West Bank (Israeli Settlement Produce)” or “Produce of the West Bank (Palestinian Produce)” . Customers can then choose whether to buy the product on the basis of this information.
I am sorry if this is not the answer you were hoping for. Please be assured that we will always be careful to follow labelling guidelines. If you remain concerned about these issues you may wish to raise this with EU and UK Government bodies.
Kind regards
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Tesco Customer Service
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To: [email protected]
From: ……….
Received: 08/05/2014
Subject: Tesco Customer Service Enquiry Call Form
Title: Mrs
First Name: M
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Wish a reply: yes
Additional Information: When I visited your …… store this morning to do my weekly shopping, I was very disturbed to see that you are selling produce grown in Israel, namely ‘baby potatoes’. I replaced them on the shelf when I saw their origin. You also stock Medjool dates and peppers from Israel.
You know that Israel stole land that belonged to the Palestinians in Al Naqba in 1948 and more again in 1967. Palestinian homes and villages were razed to the ground and house demolitions continue to this day. Settlements in large numbers are being built.
Palestinian water is used to produce the exported food items whereas the Palestinians themselves do not have access to drinking water and have to buy bottled water.
If your practice of stocking produce labelled as of Israeli origin continues, I will apply my own personal boycott of your stores and will also inform my friends who shop with you.
The Israeli Occupation is cruel, illegal, inhumane and revolting.
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Nice, Mary. Consumer awareness and activism hits them where it hurts the most. They sure cried genuine tears when the FAA and US stopped flights into Israel. Economic terrorism !
Poor child. He wouldn’t have known much about it I hope.
Wonder what the US military plane was doing in Mali????
Child ‘Stowaway’ Found Dead On US Military Plane
Ground crew discovered the body of the young boy in the plane’s wheel well when it landed in Germany after a mission to Africa.
http://news.sky.com/story/1310049/child-stowaway-found-dead-on-us-military-plane
What a world. I have just encountered healers and carers, each of them worth 1000x the likes of Cameron/Clegg/Hague/Hammond and the rest.
Blood for Gas.
http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2489992/armed_robbery_in_gaza_israel_us_uk_carve_up_the_spoils_of_palestines_stolen_gas.html
“Israel desperately covets Gaza’s gas as a ‘cheap stop-gap’ yielding revenues of $6-7 billion a year, writes Nafeez Ahmed. The UK’s BG and the US’s Noble Energy are lined up to do the dirty work – but first Hamas must be ‘uprooted’ from Gaza, and Fatah bullied into cutting off its talks with Russia’s Gazprom.”
@ Bugger the Panda.
you said..Maybe because they would give the position of the tunnels away, too cheaply?
Axiomatic?
Well at the moment they are losing the tunnels even cheaper, and some life’s to boot. If a tunnel has been discovered its value is virtually nil.
So what would be the last use for a tunnel?
Israel has a cost effective means of persuading residents to relocate. Water quality? At least that can’t get worse in Gaza.
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/gao-report-drinking-water-at-risk-from-underground-fracking-waste-injection
“The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) publicly released its report this week finding that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is “not consistently conducting two key oversight and enforcement activities for class II programs” for underground fluid injection wells associated with oil and gas production. The report shows that the EPA’s program to protect drinking water sources from underground injection of fracking waste needs improvement.
According to the report, “The U.S. EPA does not consistently conduct annual on-site state program evaluations as directed in guidance because, according to some EPA officials, the agency does not have the resources to do so.” The report also found that “to enforce state class II requirements, under current agency regulations, EPA must approve and incorporate state program requirements and any changes to them into federal regulations through a rulemaking.”
“The federal government’s watchdog is saying what communities across the country have known for years: fracking is putting Americans at risk,” said Amy Mall, senior policy analyst at the Natural Resources Defense Council. ”From drinking water contamination to man-made earthquakes, the reckless way oil and gas companies deal with their waste is a big problem. Outdated rules and insufficient enforcement are largely to blame. EPA needs to rein in this industry run amok.”
“Wouldn’t the UNSC do something to Netanyahu for sassing them that way? Wouldn’t they devastate the Israeli economy the way they did the Iranian? Wouldn’t they authorize military action to protect civilians in Gaza from Israeli war crimes, as they did in Libya?”
http://www.juancole.com/2014/07/impunity-defying-ceasefire.html
‘Omerta’ is a big obstacle to those seeking justice.
Video: Mark Regev, deciphered
Adam Horowitz on July 30, 2014
http://mondoweiss.net/2014/07/video-regev-deciphered.html
This is good. The video above was created by Alex Nunns, who subtitled a BBC interview with Israeli spokesperson Mark Regev. The interview follows the Israeli bombing of an UN school in Beit Hanoun that killed at least 16 Palestinians.
I never thought I would see Maitlis in this mode. I almost felt sorry for Regev.
Where is Jesus Christ? Go to the BBC website and there is a report of another atrocity. Look at the number injured!
Strike on Gaza market ‘kills 15’ New
At least 15 people are killed and 160 hurt as an Israeli strike hits a market crowded with shoppers near Gaza City, Palestinian officials say.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-28571785
Ben
Stephen Dorrell said of the billions spent culling cattle because of BSE that nobody could have foreseen the consequences of feeding animal offal to cattle.
Most of our water comes from boreholes and rivers in the UK and it is swiveleye lunacy to pollute our beautiful water supply with fracking.
Tories think that banks are taps to draw out money from, animals are taps to draw out milk from. Someone somewhere is calculating the profits to be made from our having to buy our drinking water in bottles.
Only Tories could even dream of polluting our beautiful water in this way.
Come home to roast: Cameron’s ‘tough on immigration’ PR stunt backfires In a botched PR stunt to appear tough on immigration, David Cameron posed for photographs in the home of people arrested for alleged immigration offences, drawing accusations of “bad taste”.
http://rt.com/uk/176752-cameron-criticized-illegal-immigrants/